BACKGROUND Road Safety is a major cause of death around the world and South Africa has one of the highest road fatality rates. Many measures, engineering and medical, are investigated. However, analysis of the accessibility of emergency care facilities is often overlooked. This paper aims to fill the gap between pre-crash engineering solutions and literature on trauma injuries and emergency car...

Visual maps must be transcribed into (interactive) raised-line maps to be accessible for visually impaired people. However, these tactile maps suffer from several shortcomings: they are long and expensive to produce, they cannot display a large amount of information, and they are not dynamically modifiable. A number of methods have been developed to automate the production of raised-line maps, ...

Podgorje is in the zone of overlapping nodal-functional regions Rijeka and Zadar. Despite its central position geographical context Adriatic Croatia, region suffering very negative demographic processes trends because it an area poor transportation accessibility. The aim this research paper to analyze interdependency transport accessibility neighboring leading regional centers, as well that hav...

The paper evaluates the development and capacities of action road network, in particular, its degree density accessibility specific years 1998 2017, Wilaya M'sila, (Algeria). This aims to understand extent contribution this network support region. To identify municipal socio-economic profile, 41 indicators were used, 6 determine density, 5 measure accessibility. After comparing results previous...

BACKGROUND The duration of untreated psychosis is determined by both patient and service related factors. Few studies have considered the geographical accessibility of services in relation to treatment delay in early psychosis. To address this, we investigated whether treatment delay is co-determined by straight-line distance to hospital based specialist services in a mainly rural mental health...

Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically close, but has a greater effect on coo...

The ability to live the life one wants with public transport is of key factors sustainable and inclusive societies. Given current trend in domain, providing accessible necessary order allow people participate their day-to-day activities without using a car. Using survey data obtained from Sweden, this study investigates that may have negative effect on perceived accessibility transportation maj...